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Indlæser... How to Leave: Quitting the City and Coping with a New Reality (udgave 2018)af Erin Clune (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Unnecessarily snarky. Where she lives is in a village in the middle of a university city. The city is a medium-sized one, and not nearly as unsophisticated as she portrays it to be. ( ) This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I received an ARC of this book for free through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers. This book did not start off very strong. I wasn’t really into it at first. I got about 50 pages in and was sort of “eh” about it. Part One consisted of a lot of rambling. There was no focus; just a bunch of random anecdotes that were all over the place. It also seemed like it was trying way too hard to be funny. As the book progressed, it did get better. Once the author started writing about her new home in Wisconsin, there was more of a focus and some funny parts. For example, I did enjoy the bits about the culture shock. I think the book had an interesting goal in mind: a tongue in cheek “guide” on how to leave a big city. However, I didn’t think this actually needed to be a whole book. The book seemed to repeat a lot of the same ideas about moving over and over again. There just wasn’t a lot of actual substance to warrant an actual book. The whole thing could have been consolidated into a couple of chapters in a larger memoir or even as a magazine editorial. Overall, this was an interesting read that did have its moments, but would have been better off as a shorter work. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I thought, as a lifelong Wisconsinite, I would enjoy this. I was so, so wrong. I was ready to discard it by page 2, but forced myself to finish the chapter because I did, after all, have an obligation to review this work. I did proceed onward beyond that, but not happily, and it didn't improve. I think what I had such a negative reaction to was the tone/attitude/personality first and foremost, followed by my inability to understand alot of what was supposed to be humor (?) or worldliness (?) I couldn't resonate with her love of NY having never lived there, and I definitely think you have to have some experience with NY to "get" much of what she's going on about in the beginning (which seems to be joy in cockroaches, human feces, urine stench, and unaffordable housing). If the meaning of life for you involves these things plus seeing loads of famous people who don't impress you, and thinking anyone who lives anywhere else is beneath you (and that Wisconsin is a vast cornfield of uncultured inbreds with no doormen, oh the horror!), coupled with a confusing sense of immaturity (I kept having to remind myself this was not a 16-20 year old writing), then you may enjoy this. [My review comes as a result of winning an ARC from LibraryThing Early Reviewers] This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book had some funny moments, but overall I was a bit disappointed. I'm not sure whether it was the somewhat elitist tone or the excessive use of bad language, which seemed a bit lazy to me after repeated use (there are other ways to elicit a laugh from a reader), but there was just something about this book that kept me from enjoying it as fully as I expected. I hate to write a negative review because I do find some of her observations to be quite funny, but I don't think I would recommend this book for most. I've moved thirteen times as the spouse of a career special agent, living overseas several times, as well as both coasts of the United States and places in between. Perhaps this simply made me unsympathetic to her great difficulty in adjusting to her move to Wisconsin? This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. How to Leave is a memoir/self-help book that the author also calls "a real-talk manual about moving". With truly laugh out loud zings, you get a glimpse of life in NYC (i.e. Twinkie sized water bugs), and what it's like to leave a big, cosmopolitan city for someplace - any place smaller. "You can't simply leave New York - you have to quit New York." Examples of people in Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, and her own move to Madison, WI explains some of the ups and downs. You can love something and hate it at the same time. The book has 4 parts: Deciding to Go, Settling In, Learning to Adapt, and Mastery. Each page has hilarious insight and a wonderful use of the New York "f-bomb". You'll discover how to tell when you've reached your tipping point and what to do when Reverse Culture Shock hits you in a return to the motherland. Also, why don't Midwesterners do dark humor? "Buckle Up, Buttercup" because this is a fantastically funny read! ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
An uproarious memoir/tongue-in-cheek guide to leaving the cool city in which you "found" yourself and moving somewhere far more ordinary. So you escaped whatever humdrum little town you grew up in and moved to The Big City. Maybe it was New York. Maybe it was Seattle or Kansas City. Wherever it was, there was amazing stuff everywhere you turned: Ethiopian food! A movie theater that played documentaries! A hairstylist who knew what to do with frizz! You overlooked the proximity of your kitchen to your bed, and the fact that you had to take public transportation to see nature. But then you got a job offer you couldn't refuse. Or you developed asthma. Or you got pregnant. Or you got pregnant for the second time and you couldn't use your closet as a bedroom fortwobabies. And you decided you had to leave. When Frank Sinatra and Alicia Keys said that if you could make it in New York, you could make it anywhere, they probably weren't talking about whatever suburb you used to make fun of. Because it's hard to "make it" without world-class museums and gourmet food trucks. Erin Clune regales readers with priceless stories of her own experiences leaving New York for her hometown in Wisconsin, and provides a jocular but useful guide--for anyone leaving, or thinking about leaving, their own personalmecca--to finding contentment while staying true to yourself in a place far, far away from The City. No library descriptions found. |
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